PrF:SOC015 Czech Legal Culture - Course Information
SOC015 Czech Legal Culture
Faculty of LawAutumn 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. JUDr. PhDr. Miloš Večeřa, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. JUDr. Radim Polčák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. JUDr. Mgr. Martin Škop, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Bc. Lucie Smolka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Danuše Spáčilová (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- prof. JUDr. Radim Polčák, Ph.D.
Institute of Law and Technology – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: prof. JUDr. Ing. Michal Radvan, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Institute of Law and Technology – Faculty of Law - Timetable
- Tue 11:10–12:40 031
- Prerequisites
- There are no special requirements or prerequisites. The course is suitable also for students of non-legal disciplines.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Multidisciplinary studies (programme CST, KOS)
- Multidisciplinary studies at Faculty of Law (programme CST, KOS)
- Multidisciplinary studies (programme PrF, KOS)
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course, the students should be able to:
- understand the historical, political and social foundations of the Czech Law
- to understand and analyze the structure and system of the Czech Law
- to understand and analyze the structure of the Czech Judiciary
- to understand and analyze the structure of Czech legal professions
- to critically compare Czech legal system with their European and Common-law counterparts - Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to the Czech legal culture
- 2. History and organization of the Czech Republic
- 3. Czech system of law
- 4. Czech constitutional order
- 5. Czech sources of law and relations to international law
- 6. System of Czech courts
- 7. Excursion to the Constitutional Court
- 8. Excursion to the Supreme Administrative Court
- 9. Contemporary issues in the Czech judiciary
- 10. Contemporary issues in Czech legal philosophy
- 11. Media and the Czech law
- 12. Czech law in evolving society (arts, politics)
- Literature
- veškerá studijní literatura bude studentům poskytnuta prostřednictvím interaktivní osnovy / all readings will be provided within the interactive syllabus
- Teaching methods
- Interactive seminars - at the the beginning of each seminar, students present their short comparative reports. The outcomes of these reports are then confronted with explanation and analysis of the Czech legal system.
- Assessment methods
- Credits are awarded upon elaborating of 6 comparative reports (together 40 %) and a written exam (2 short essays, each 30 %).
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2015, recent)
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